This episode features Professor Cynthia Stohl in conversation with Professor Shiv Ganesh. Professor Stohl shares her perspective on the rapid expansion of the field of communication during the 1980s, where researchers shifted to a more embedded and global approach. She discusses how the International Communication Association continues to globalize through affiliate journals and hubs. Professor Stohl also shares some stories about her challenges doing organizational communication research among factory workers in New Zealand.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Shiv Ganesh

Cynthia Stohl

Sponsors

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Shiv Ganesh

Professor of Communication

Moody College of Communication

The University of Texas at Austin

LinkedIn: shivganeshnzus

Facebook: shivtalk

Cynthia Stohl

Distinguished Professor

Department of Communication

University of California, Santa Barbara

Works referenced in episode

Bimber, B., Flanagin, A., & Stohl, C. (2012). Collective action in organizations: Interaction and engagement in an era of technological change. Cambridge University Press.

Harness, D. Ganesh, S. & Stohl, C. (in press) Visibility Agents: Organizing Transparency in the Digital Era. New Media and Society.

Knapp, M. L., Stohl, C., & Reardon, K. K. (1981). “Memorable” messages. The Journal of Communication.

Putnam, L. L., & Stohl, C. (1990). Bona fide groups: A reconceptualization of groups in context. Communication Studies.

Stohl, C. (1993). European managers' interpretations of participation: A semantic network analysis. Human Communication Research, 20, 1, 97-117.

Stohl, C. (1995). Organizational communication: Connectedness in action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Professors James Cummings and Byron Reeves as they discuss Professor Reeves’s background and research in media psychology. Professor Reeves explores the topic of media effects and explains how data science within this area of the communications field has changed throughout his career.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Byron Reeves

James Cummings

Sponsor:

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Byron Reeves

Policy Emeritus Professor of Communication

Professor, School of Education

Stanford University

Twitter: @byronreeves

James Cummings

Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies

Boston University

Twitter: @_jjcii

Works referenced in episode:

Reeves, B., Robinson, T., & Ram, N. (2020). Time for the human screenome project. Nature, 577(7790), 314-317.

Script and Audio Editors:
Bennett Pack
Jacqueline Colarusso

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Scott Poole, in conversation with Professor Andy Pilny, discusses the discourse and interactions within groups trying to accomplish a common goal. Dr. Poole also shines light on different theories, processes, and observations he’s made in group settings throughout his illustrious career.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Andrew Pilny

Scott Poole

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Scott Poole

David L. Swanson Professor Emeritus of Communication | Director of The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Fellow in Organization Science Program | Vrije University, Netherlands

Andrew Pilny

Associate Professor of Communication | University of Kentucky

Works referenced in episode:

Pilny, A. & Poole, M. S., (2017) Group Processes: Data-Driven Computational Approaches (Editors)., Springer. 206 p.

Poole, M. S. & DeSanctis, G., ( 2009), Applied research on group decision support systems: The minnesota GDSS project. Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research. Taylor and Francis, p. 558-583 26 p.

Arrow, H., Henry, K. B., Poole, M. S., Wheelan, S., & Moreland, R. (2005). Traces, Trajectories, and Timing: The Temporal Perspective on Groups.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Bennett Pack

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown